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Freshmen center Allison Keith recently joined her classmates Cara James (out all year with a knee injury) and Kelly Black (out until January with a stress fracture) on the injured list, missing significant practice time because of a stubborn knee injury from the summer...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: W. Cagers Prep for Season | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

Sunday, Harvard travelled to Orono, Me. with the hopes of fulfilling more of that potential, but the Crimson met a stubborn Black Bear team and lost by one goal again, falling 2-1 on another muddy...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Wet Start for Stickwomen | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

...ensuing hand-wringing has been massive. Some say the blame lies with stubborn Justice Department lawyers such as Ryan who mistakenly held to the notion that Demjanjuk was Ivan in an effort to have a show trial that would advance them professionally. Others say the Israeli and American prosecution's reliance on eyewitness testimony--unreliable because of the passage of time and painful memories--doomed the case...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: 16 Years Later, Demjanjuk Could End Where He Started | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...them that way at all. No matter how small the teeming signs got, they still represented something -- a point the artist later emphasized by cutting some of them up and using them as the facial hair in his hilarious sequence of bearded heads, such as Beard of Stubborn Refusal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Outlaw Who Loved Laws | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving on this assessment. In Rome he has seen the statue of a broken-nosed, middle-aged gladiator. The fighter is seated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scar Tissue | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

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